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Afghan Transitional Administration Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity ** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ...

was established in June and July 2002. It has been replaced with the election of a permanent government in 2004.

President and chairman

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

Vice presidents

Hedayat Arsala Hedayat Amin Arsala ( ps, هدايت امين ارسلا) (born January 12, 1942), is an economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan. Mr. Arsala is a former Vice President of Afghanistan, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister and until O ...

Mohammad Qasim Fahim Mohammad Qasim Fahim ( prs, محمد فهیم, also known as "Marshal Fahim"; 1957 – 9 March 2014) was a politician in Afghanistan who served as Vice President from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death. Betwee ...

* Abdul Karim Khalili * Nematullah Shahrani

Security advisors

Yunus Qanuni Younus Qanooni ( prs, یونس قانونی, born on 10 May 1957 in Panjshir Valley) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik, Qanooni is the leader of the '' Afghanistan e Naween'' (New Afghanistan) politica ...

* Zalmay Rassoul

Ministers

Sayed Hussein Anwari Sayed Hussein Anwari ( prs, سید حسین انوری) (1956 – 5 July 2016) was a politician in Afghanistan. He was a Shia and came from Mohammed Asef Mohseni's Harakat-e Islami (Islamic Movement party). Early life Anwari, an ethnic Hazara ...

(Agriculture) * Mir Wais Saddiq (Son of

Ismail Khan Mohammad Ismail Khan (Dari/Pashto: محمد اسماعیل خان) (born 1946) is an Afghan former politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013 and before that served as the governor of Herat Province. Originally a cap ...

) (Air Transport/Tourism) *

Arif Nurzai Mohammad Arif Noorzai (born 1959) was a former minister of Border and Tribe Affairs for Afghanistan. He was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. He is the first ...

(Border Affairs) *

Sayed Mustafa Kazemi Sayed Mustafa Kazemi ( prs, سید مصطفی کاظمی, 1959 – November 6, 2007) from Parwan was a prominent Afghan politician. He was one of the leaders and the spokesman for the opposition movement known as the United National Front. He was ...

(Commerce) * Masum Stanakzai (Communication) *

(Defense) **

Abdul Rashid Dostum Abdul Rashid Dostum ( ; prs, عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: , Uzbek Cyrillic: , ; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish- ...

(Deputy Defense) * Muhammad Yunus Qanuni (Education) * Yusuf Nooristani (Environment) ( U.S. citizen) *

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban. Born in ...

(Finance) ( U.S. citizen) * Abdullah (Foreign Affairs) * Mohammad Amin Naziryar (Hajj and Waqf) *Dr. Soheila Siddiqi (Health) *

Sharif Fayez Sharif Fayez, also known as Mohammed Sharif Fayez, (1946 – February 8, 2019), was an academic in Afghanistan, who also served as the country's Minister of Higher Education from 22 December 2001 to 2007. He has written several English and Persian ...

(Higher Education) ( U.S. citizen) *

Sayed Makhdoom Raheen Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen (Persian: سید مخدوم رهین) is a Persian author and an Afghan politician. He is an ethnic Tajik and is a dual citizen (holds American citizenship). Life He was born in 1946 in the Afghan capital of Kabul. He ...

(Information/Culture) (Raheen is a U.S. citizen) *

Ali Ahmad Jalali Ali Ahmad Jalali (Pashto/ prs, علی احمد جلالی) is an Afghan politician, diplomat, and academic. Jalali served as the Minister of Interior from January 2003 to September 2005. He has also been a distinguished professor at the Near East ...

(Interior) (since Jan. 2003) ( U.S. citizen) *

Ahmed Yusuf Nuristani Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a former politician from Afghanistan. He has served as governor of Herat province from January 2009 to August 2010. In September 2018, President Ashraf Ghani appointed Nuristani to the Meshrano Jirga, the upper body ...

(Irrigation/Environment) *

Abdul Rahim Karimi Abdul Rahim Karimi was Minister of Justice of Afghanistan between December 2001 and October 2004 in the Afghan Interim Authority and the Afghan Transitional Administration. He was replaced by Sarwar Danish when Karzai reshuffled his cabinet when h ...

(Justice) *

Noor Mohammad Qarqin Noor Mohammad Qarqin (born 1953 in a village in Qarqeen District of Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan) is a former minister in the Afghan government and ambassador. He is an ethnic Turkmen and has a Bachelor of Science from Kabul University. Early l ...

(Labor/Social Affairs) *

Mohammad Alim Razm Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mono ...

(Light Industries) *

Abdullah Wardak Mohammad Jan Abdullah Wardak (1954 or 1955 – 13 September 2008) was an Afghan politician and former Mujahideen commander. He served as a government Minister and Governor of Logar Province. Biography Abdullah Wardak, an ethnic Pashtun, wa ...

(Martyrs and Disabled) *

Juma Muhammad Muhammadi Jum'a-Mohammad Mohammadi was the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries under the Afghan Transitional Administration. He died in a plane crash on February 24, 2003 while returning from a mission in Pakistan to learn techniques in copper mining. H ...

(Mines and Industries) (died in plane crash, February 24, 2003) *

Mohammad Mohaqeq Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq ( prs, حاجی محمد محقق; born 26 July 1955 in Balkh) is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament. He is also the founder and chairman of the People's Islamic Unity Party of A ...

(Planning) *

Mohammad Amin Farhang Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...

(Reconstruction) (German citizen) * Inayatulah Nazeri (Refugees) *

Hanif Atmar Mohammad Haneef Atmar (Pashto: محمد حنیف اتمر; born 10 September 1968) is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former Interior Minister of Afghanistan. He was removed from the Ministry of Interior Affairs by Hamid Karzai in ...

(Rural Development) * Said Mohammad Ali Jawid (Transportation) *

Yusuf Pashtun Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew lang ...

until August 16, 2003 (Urban Planning) * Ahmed Shaker Kargar (Water and Electricity) * Habiba Sarobi (Women's Affairs) * Mahbooba Hoquqmal (State or Advisor-Minister for Women's Affairs) * Gul Agha Sherzai after August 16, 2003 (Urban Affairs)

Head of Supreme Court

* Fazl Hadi Shinwari

Governors

*Ghazni province: Qari Baba *Herat province:

until August 13, 2003 *Kabul province: Taj Mohammad Mujaahid *Kandahar province: Gul Agha Sherzai until August 16, 2003; then

*Khost province:

Hakim Taniwal Hakim Taniwal (Pashto: حکيم تڼيوال) was the Governor of Paktia province in Afghanistan until he was killed by a suicide bomber on 10 September 2006, at the age of 60.Sayyid Yusuf *Nangarhar province: Gul Agha Sherzai replacing Hajji Din Muhammad (brother of late Hajji Qadir) *Nimruz province: Abdul Karim Brahoui *Paktia province:

Taj Mohammad Wardak Taj Mohammad Wardak is an Afghan politician, from the Pashtun ethnic group. He spent some of the period of the Taliban's administration in the United States of America, and became an American citizen. Early political career In the mid-1960s Warda ...

(appointed by Karzai in mid-February 2002) *Zabul province: Hamidullah Tokhi until August, 2003; then Hafizullah Khan *

Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi Anwar ul-Haq Ahady (August 12, 1951) is a politician in Afghanistan, formerly serving as Afghan Minister of Commerce and Industry. He had served as the nation's Finance Minister from December 2004 to February 5, 2009. Prior to that he held the ...

(governor of the Afghan Central Bank) Jawzjan Sayeed Ahmad Shah

Afghan ambassadors and envoys

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Mahmoud Saikal Mahmoud Saikal ( prs, محمود صیقل) is a senior Afghans, Afghan diplomat and an international development specialist. He was the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations from October 2015 until ...

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